On The Surface talks to the team at Perth Plaster Mouldings about the incredible elliptical skylight they created for Westfield Carousel Shopping Centre in Cannington, WA.
Led by Tom Pappas and Steve Koveski, Perth Plaster Mouldings is known for its high-quality workmanship and specialist restoration work. The company has walked away with trophies from a number of AWCI's Awards of Excellence, most recently taking out top honours in the Commercial Up To $500k category in last year's national awards for thier work on the Westfield Carousel Shopping Centre.
Tasked with creating an enormous elliptical skylight for Westfield Carousel, Perth Plaster Mouldings was excited to be building a full-size model for the first time ever.
"We would normally just make a section of a model and then repeat castings" Steve explains.
"The full size of the ellipse was 15m longs and 11.5m wide. To complete the job, we first had to find a workshop that would accommodate the size of the dome and allow us to space to work around it"
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Once the ellipse was moulded, the next hurdle was the transportation of the dome to site
The team decided to transport the casts in the moulds, which would stop them from going out of shape, however, this meant they could only transport two moulds and two casts at one time.
The installation process was undertaken by Enzo Scarvaci from Finlay Group.
"Enzo's feedback was that this was one of the easiest pieces of plaster he has had to install," Tom says.
